Brad's focus in Congress is combatting pervasively serious crime, building an environment for continued economic growth in North Carolina's 13th District and across the nation and defending against persistent threats to our country from within our own borders.
build an environment for continued economic growth in North Carolina's 13th District and across the nation
Occurrences
I am both excited and eager to begin working for stronger law enforcement, a secure border, safer communities and a prosperous future for North Carolina and the United States
Evidence
Brad’s focus in Congress is "building an environment for continued economic growth in North Carolina’s 13th District and across the nation."
He says he is running to keep building "a safer, stronger, and more prosperous North Carolina."
Rep. Knott introduced the bill to study impediments to digital documentation and verification in the aviation supply chain.
Public Law 119-21 was enacted on July 4, 2025 as H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Knott said the bill meant "no taxes on tips, social security, or overtime, and full expensing of factory and equipment reinvestment."
The official homepage's latest news list shows a June 9, 2026 press release titled "Knott Votes to Restore ICE and CBP Funding After 100 Days of Democrat Obstruction," indicating Knott publicly claimed a recent vote to restore agency funding.
Knott used a May 20, 2026 op-ed to argue that modernizing aviation is necessary because air travel keeps the economy moving, which is aligned with the economic-growth promise but remains advocacy rather than delivered results.
Assessments
This promise is broad and outcome-oriented, so full delivery would require stronger evidence that Knott actually created a sustained economic-growth environment in North Carolina's 13th District or nationally. The record here shows meaningful same-term action toward that goal: he supported and voted for an enacted tax-and-spending package he argued would boost prosperity and investment, introduced an aviation supply-chain digitization bill aimed at reducing friction, and continued related advocacy. That is enough for partial credit because he materially advanced policies consistent with the promise, but the evidence does not show the larger promised economic environment was clearly achieved.
The promise is broad and ongoing, so the available record does not establish full delivery of an improved economic-growth environment. During his current federal term, Knott did take concrete actions aligned with the goal: he voted for an enacted reconciliation package containing tax and investment provisions he framed as pro-growth, and he introduced a bill aimed at reducing friction in aviation supply-chain documentation. These actions materially support partial credit, but they do not prove the promised economic outcome was fully achieved across NC-13 and the nation.
The promise is broad and outcome-oriented, so it cannot be fully verified as delivered from the supplied evidence alone. Knott did take same-term legislative action aligned with an economic-growth agenda, including voting for an enacted major tax and spending package and introducing a supply-chain digitization study bill. Those actions support partial progress, but the evidence does not show that he fully built or achieved the promised economic-growth environment in North Carolina's 13th District or nationally.